National Lottery Heritage Fund

We've been immensely supported by Esme Fairbairn Foundation as core funders.

We've had very longstanding support from the Heritage Lottery Fund, run a big project called Our Upland Commons, Our Common Cause Foundation.

And the key about the Foundation for Common Land is we want to stay small and enable people to manage their common land better.

That might be groups of commoners, it may be the National Trust, it may be water companies, it may be a national park authority.

And I said to myself, you know, what the hell? 2020, 2021.

Collecting stories for a book called Homelander's Presence that was published, self-published, but funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund, which is a book of recipes, remedies, remedies, rituals, collected from 70 women who live in Essex, who are...

Not from Essex, quite

honestly.

Jess Rowley is a London-based librarian and multimedia artist whose research practice explores decolonial approaches to archiving, editing, and the phonographic archives of Afro diasporic musicians performing in Britain circa 1880.

Jess was previously a cataloger and librarian at the Feminist Library, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, and recently has begun her PhD at Southampton University, investigating black sonic histories in Victorian Britain through the speculative resounding of recordings listed in the Library of Congress Missing Cylinders list, using performance, film, and writing.

Her series of live lecture performances, Brothers, animates the histories surrounding the lost phonograph cylinder recordings of the Bohie brothers through acts of sonic speculations, a project we will speak about throughout this conversation.

Jess holds a BA in Architecture from Brighton University and an MA in Material Futures from Central Saint Martins, where she was nominated for the Mullen Lowe NOVA Award.

We replaced the planters to the south side of the cathedral, provided financial support to the Guildhall to promote the history and heritage of the building, And the Society was also the rallying point for a large number of groups involved in the 2028 Town of Culture bid.

And we were most proud to have provided seed funding for the Abbey of St Edmunds Reborn project, which has now been successful in attracting National Heritage Lottery funding, allowing this most ambitious project to become a reality.

Having highlighted some of the work of the Society, now comes the but.

In common with many such charities, the perennial problem is attracting volunteers and, particularly for our Society, the next generation of trustees to ensure the work of the charity can continue.

A Mile in My Shoes, 81 Uprisings was produced by the Empathy Museum and created with 81 acts of exuberant defiance in the Abele Initiative.

This series was made possible by the National Heritage Lottery Fund.

We

are preparing a bid to Heritage Lottery based on the scoping grant report, which again will lay a foundation for the future.

My plan is to keep involved as long as I'm physically and mentally capable.

yeah

we also run a really strong volunteer program we've got funding from the heritage lottery fund um to fund a volunteer and partnerships coordinator so emily runs a really strong volunteer program

and what do the volunteers do farming mostly

No, well, they do farming in a variety of roles.

It's been really, really helpful.

But our Farm to Fork project is coming into its third.

third year and we've also had some funding for it from the Heritage Lottery Fund um and that's been an amazing project it was actually the project that I started um that brought me to Tulliford I applied for the the job when it was advertised um and then when I started it was suggested that maybe I didn't know very much about farms which is completely accurate so Jamie's Jamie was suggested, who is a Dartmoor farmer.

She farms in Yorbiton with her husband.